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  1. 1.

    sukabi

    do you have your fence up yet??? if so, turn them loose in the backyard for a bit… if not, rig up a run line in your back yard and hook them to it…

    and that’s why I like cats… open the door and let them out… mine come back when I call them…

  5. 5.

    Joseph Nobles

    Your dogs are trying to tell you a good walk would help relieve your stress. It always helps them. Win-win!

  6. 6.

    nenabeans

    no, I don’t want your dogs but I like your collar trick. I think I’ll use it on my poodle. Stressed out? time to make some carne asada tacos with tomatillo salsa.

  9. 9.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Dogs are high maintenance. You should have gotten a hamster, you fat lazy sack of shit.

  10. 10.

    eemom

    hey, it’s not the doggies’ fault that yer commenters are mauling yer new front pager like fresh roadkill.

    Anyone want a pack of snarling, vitriolic jackals?

  11. 11.

    Politically Lost

    Ah, the joys of an enclosed yard. However, my mutt likes to lie in wait for furious barking about the mailman, Fedex guy, the UPS guy, passing children, neighbors talking, the homeless that walk by the back fence over a hundred yards away…etc.

    It’s his revenge for me kicking him out of the house so I can have a break from his penetrating terrier stare.

  12. 12.

    MeDrewNotYou

    I’d take Lily, but I suspect my dog wouldn’t like competition for his affections.

    BTW John are you still taking pictures of commentators pets? I’ve got the most adorable pictures of Danny that I’d love to show the world.

  14. 14.

    garage mahal

    The stress and frustration is definitely palpable. But pretty fucking funny. But, that’s why you get paid the big bucks and I don’t. And sorry I don’t have any sage advice. We love you though man, that’s why this blog rules.

  15. 15.

    demo woman

    Since this is an open thread, I’m going to share what I found in the AJC about Palin’s visit.

    The Huckabee event probably did not include Huckabee impersonators. The Palin event does. There’s a woman here in a red suit, brown hair piled on top, with glasses. The Huckabee event probably did not include Huckabee’s head on a stake, held aloft for all the crowd to see. The Palin event does, with wig and glasses.

    Link
    What’s with the cult like behavior?

  16. 16.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Nah, a hamster would want a Kia Soul instead of a walk and belly-rub.

    He could name the hamster Jane. That should generate some epic thread trolling.

  17. 17.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    Since this is an open thread, I am going to post one EDK rant:

    He’s here. No more posting about why John brought him on, or why he can’t respond to comments in his posts.

    There’s plenty in his posts to ridicule without attacking him. We need the practice. It’s not very often that we get to feel like climate change scientists having to talk to people who see snow and declare global warming bunk.

  18. 18.

    Linda Featheringill

    1. Enclosed yard [back would be nice].

    2. You own the house, have a doggie door installed on a back door. You can lock these doors down at night.

    3. As eemom said, it’s not the doggies’ fault that we are dissing your new hit-and-run conservative front pager.

  22. 22.

    MikeJ

    @Belafon (formerly anonevent): I only read about the first thirty comments on his post, but they seemed pretty level headed and pointed out that his post was misleading and that there were some inaccuracies. I don’t understand what people are so upset about. He posts stupid shit, people call it stupid. The end.

  24. 24.

    farmette

    The answer is a fenced yard, big enough that they can run a bit, with a little shade. Of course, you’ll have to learn to ignore them when they incessantly demand to come back in only to incessantly demand to be let out. Eventually, they will tire of that routine.

  25. 25.

    TooManyJens

    I just came from the gym, where I saw a caption (or whatever they’re called on video) on CNN saying “Sarah Palin unveils Southern strategy”.

    I don’t know exactly what that’s about, but it can’t be good.

  26. 26.

    gwangung

    @MikeJ: Oh, it’s not the first thirty posts, it’s the resulting 275 posts, with mounting frustration that they aren’t being answered….

    (and I’m not particularly supportive of the original post…he posts stupid shit along with some unwarranted/unexamined assumptions, and he should take his licking like a good boy. I just don’t take out on him personally)(or, at least, not anything more personal than, “dude, you’re saying some stupid stuff here.).

  27. 27.

    stuckinred

    @TooManyJens: She’s coming here to Georgia tomorrow to campaign for one of the two morons running for the governorship.

    actually there are three but one’s a dem

  31. 31.

    birthmarker

    Dogs and fences make good pets.

    E.D.’s a big boy. He can handle us. Personally I think we can turn him. I think he’s a nice guy and can be reasoned with.

  32. 32.

    Keith G

    Cole, that is what you get for letting cutie pie Lily stay all cuddled up in bed all morning.

    Get the ladies up up and out for a few miles of walking and play at sunrise. That will slow em down a bit for some of the day.

  33. 33.

    gelfling545

    You are paying the price for having gone away for a very looong (in doggie terms) time. When they’re sure they can trust you not to disappear again they will settle down.

  35. 35.

    kdaug

    Your dogs are picking up on your stress – you’re stressing them out as well. Ditto the above, just go on a damn walk. And while you’re out, sit down under a tree for 15 minutes or so, breathe, and let them smell around.

  37. 37.

    JL

    Remember the recent Olympics in which a Korean boxer was penalized in such a way as to cost him a medal?

    Jay Leno remarked: “He not only went home and kicked his dog, but he ate it, too”.

  38. 38.

    Corner Stone

    I’m so stressed out

    Got a big date coming up? What’s his name?

    I’m sure you’ll do fine after the pedi you got the other day. No worries big guy.

  39. 39.

    duck-billed placelot

    Bubble bath and alcohol. Get your dogs a couple of those hollow bone chew toys and smoosh some peanut butter up in the middle of ’em – they’ll be licking them contentedly for hours. Also probably turn off the computer. Let your FPs walk the perimeter for the evening.

  40. 40.

    Cat Lady

    @birthmarker:

    Co-sign. Everything he writes seems equivocal, like he’s testing his hypothesis out for the first time. The wingnuts on other sites would give him shit for even reading that DFH overeducated communistsoshal!st Krugman, and that would be that. Here, he’s going to have to work really hard to refine and defend his viewpoint. If he doesn’t have time to respond to the criticisms, and he apparently doesn’t, then that’s frustrating for all concerned. I really do appreciate his thoughtfulness, regardless. We’re all simmering in the stew together.

  41. 41.

    Gina

    To nix the dog tag jingle nonsense we use stainless steel ID tags that slip onto the collar. They work well, don’t fall off during the marathon sessions of dog hijinks, shenanigans, and tomfoolery. I don’t have their rabies or license tags on, because those always get knocked or pulled off, but I put their vet’s number on the ID tag, along w/our info. They’re chipped too, but tags are good for the odd “got out to visit the neighbors” kind of event.

    Here’s where we found them.

  43. 43.

    JGabriel

    @birthmarker:

    E.D.’s a big boy. … Personally I think we can turn him. I think he’s a nice guy and can be reasoned with.

    “You vill listen to reason, Comrade!”

    .

  45. 45.

    bobbo

    My old lab/dane mix Chester (RIP) used to harass me starting at around 3:00, so I took him on a second walk. (Always walked him first thing a.m.) My new dog Gloria is a pit mix with 10 times more energy than Chester ever had, so after her walk in the a.m. I try to take her to a dog park (on weekends). She needs at least an hour there and a lot of interaction with other dogs, but then when we get home she sleeps like a dog.

  46. 46.

    JGabriel

    @bemused:

    Did Tunch sit on your head to wake you up this morning too?

    Wait, why is Tunch sitting on your head and why are sleeping at Cole’s?

    .

  48. 48.

    matoko_chan

    want some advice?
    Quit trying to carry Kain on your back thru the gauntlet of your commentariat’s clue sticks and ego swords..
    if he can’t stand and deliver, it will be obvious.

  51. 51.

    Florida Cynic

    Conason over at Salon has a piece up on Rick Scott. Apropos of nothing, really, but I had a Rick Scott ad pop up this morning as I was catching up. Somebody needs to tell that guy he should have the camera back off a bit. He is one creepy mofo.

  52. 52.

    Keith G

    @Belafon (formerly anonevent): It’s easier to “attack” those you do not know. Erik’s roll out was flatly miss handled by our overlord and by Erik himself. Further, little has been done to remedy that issue. Instead, all are just plowing on along full speed ahead.

    I doubt that the fault lies directly with Erik’s intrinsic abilities. He was given a perch in a highly interactive blog whose patrons are used to and demand a high level of give and take. His job and his family situation make that quite difficult. Unless something changes, his postings can not meet the expectations of many here regardless of their content.

  56. 56.

    jeffreyw

    @MikeJ: I made some crabapple jelly today, and just finished with some peach jam, so I’m gonna advise you to go with huckleberry jelly. Huckleberry jam sounds good, also. Print some custom labels with Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday and you’re gold.

  57. 57.

    El Cid

    @demo woman:

    What’s with the cult like behavior?

    I would hazard that it’s because the Palin fans are cultists, stupid, neurotic, mean, fearful, snotty, petty cultists.

  60. 60.

    demo woman

    @El Cid: I find it scary. They vote and Sarah has the money to fund a campaign that could tear the country apart in 2012.

  61. 61.

    lamh32

    This whole non-troversy, is all about jealousy. This Spanish trip has been on the schedule for a while now right??? No one said a peep.

    But once the pic came out of Michelle Obama in Spain, looking TOO DAMN FABULOUS for a First Lady, and the pic because it was SO DAMN FABULOUS was on beaucoup fashion/celebrity/news websites, that the little green monster stuck out it’s ugly head.

    Seriously, I bet if a pic had come out of Michelle O lookind schleppy and unkempt(sp?) had come out, then people would be bitching about how Michelle is not “living up to her status as First Lady”.

    Like they say in my ‘hood, “High Hater!!”

    BTW, here’s the pic of Mrs O looking “too cool for school”:
    Michelle O’s first day in Spain

  62. 62.

    Yutsano

    @jeffreyw: Plus huckleberry pancakes and/or waffles. Really anything you can do with a blueberry works for a huckleberry. Only big difference is huckleberries are pure heaven in flavor. And really don’t cultivate very well, most likely because of the clime they grow in.

  66. 66.

    bemused

    @demo woman:
    Good grief. These older women Palin groupies are just as creepy as the guys at Sarah rallies watching her drooling like they were at a strip bar.

  68. 68.

    lamh32

    So POTUS was here in Dallas today. He started the day in DC, then flew to Austin to speak, and then here in Dallas Highland Park area (5miles from Bush’s new DFW home). All the news was about a motorcade officer who was injured, but it also included other stuff.

    So when in Austin, he met Rick Perry briefly. Perry handed the President a “letter” almost as soon as he left the last step off Air Force One. Seriously, it was hand-shake with left, hand Obama “letter” with right. An excerpt of the “letter”, of course, was released to the press, it involved some drivel about border security and such, but whatever was in it, was not the story, it was so obviously a stunt. I half wish Obama had dropped the letter, or made Perry hand the letter off to Reggie Love, to “read later”.

    It was a very shady move to my mind, but I can’t stand Perry, and I a Texas Dem, so maybe I biased. Is it just me, ore wouldn’t it have been more appropriate to hand Obama the letter “off camera”, or at least let the man, walk off the tarmac!

    BTW, dude running for Guv on Dem side was not there, and the news media made the point of saying that no Dem running for election wanted to have their picture taken shaking the President’s hand. That too pissed me off, but whatever.

    The President came stayed for a fundraiser and was out in 2 hours. And he did not meet georgie bush, even though the fundraiser was about 5 miles from georgie and laura’s new digs!

  69. 69.

    Yutsano

    @jeffreyw: NOM!! I could take that for dinner. Seriously.

    @bemused: I’m wondering how much of that hero worship is a reaction to how starbursty the menfolk on the conservative side get over her. The wives are trying to get their hubbies to focus back on them, so maybe if they dress and act like her it will work. Yeah sounds hilarious to me too.

  70. 70.

    Redshift

    @lamh32: I think there’s a healthy dose of sneering that “that sort of people” shouldn’t act like they’ve got money just because they don’t really “deserve” to. (Never mind that a trip to somewhere like Spain is something that plenty of middle-class families might do.) We’ve got arguably the most glamorous First Lady since Jackie Kennedy, and she’s actually choosing to mostly play the traditional First Lady role, so it’s pretty obvious why Jackie acting like aristocracy was wonderful, but Michelle being accused of acting like aristocracy is inappropriate.

  71. 71.

    Redshift

    @lamh32: No, it’s not just you. Publicly handing the president a letter instead of talking to him in the meeting you just had where he can actually respond just screams “stunt.” Good to see that Republicans retain that “respect for the office of the presidency” they were always going on about whenever anyone questioned Bush’s policies…

  72. 72.

    The Pale Scot

    Gee,

    nobody bothered to watch the SNL puppy upper/doggie downer skit?

    it was one of my favorites.

    [shuffles back to cave]

  73. 73.

    Cain

    The main problem with Kain is that he has no pets. No dogs, no cats, nothing. If he had only posted a pet picture first with some sappy story about finding it off a highway and nurse maiding it to victory it would have changed teh whole dynamic.

    In the end, we’ll have to be content with dogs rolling in shit to really find relief from the flames.

    cain

  75. 75.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @Redshift:
    You know who else pulled a stunt like that?
    That’s right – Hugo Chavez, that’s who – when he shoved a book at O during an OAS meeting. Nice to see Perry is keeping the right sort of company.

  76. 76.

    bemused

    I wonder how many hours cable news has spent nitpicking Michele’s Obama’s vacation. On second thought, I don’t want to know. I’m ready to reach into the tv and throttle them all.
    I got an automated call from Magellan research, 3 questions on voting in primary, last question on voting Dem or R. Anyone know if Magellan is a non-partisan outfit?

  79. 79.

    Xanthippas

    @Keith G:

    I doubt that the fault lies directly with Erik’s intrinsic abilities. He was given a perch in a highly interactive blog whose patrons are used to and demand a high level of give and take. His job and his family situation make that quite difficult. Unless something changes, his postings can not meet the expectations of many here regardless of their content.

    Maybe some of the visitors here should get over their sense of entitlement. If you want to argue with people in comments, get your own damn blog.

    And it’s really, really stupid for people to say that they’d be really nice and friendly and cheerio to Erik if he’d just be so kind as to take a few extra moments out of his day to have a nice, friendly and even-tempered intellectual debate in comments. I don’t know if anybody here has noticed, but threads tend to devolve and become less informative the longer they go on.

  80. 80.

    Anne Laurie

    @Cain:

    The main problem with Kain is that he has no pets. No dogs, no cats, nothing. If he had only posted a pet picture first with some sappy story about finding it off a highway and nurse maiding it to victory it would have changed teh whole dynamic.

    Pfft, he’s got kids who are too young to object to their pics being used. If he’d had the good sense to pay attention to the local zeitgeist, his first post would’ve started with a baby photo.

  81. 81.

    Deb T

    Fenced yards don’t solve everything. My dog still needed to be walked at least once a day. It kept him sane. The fenced in yard helped when I was sick but other than that, we walked daily. He was a large terrier mix.
    I have to admit, as much as I sometimes resented having to walk him extreme cold, heat or rain, it kept me sane too.

    Deb

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